Arrests made after bomb attack targets reporter threatened by mafia

Italian police on Tuesday arrested four people suspected of carrying out an October bomb attack targeting a prominent journalist who had been threatened by the mafia. The blast in a residential neighborhood of Pomezia, about 12 miles south of Rome, destroyed two cars belonging to Sigfrido Ranucci, known for investigations into corruption and the mafia. Ranucci had just returned home at the time, and his daughter had walked by a half-hour before, his employer said at the time. Video shot by Ranucci , who has been under police protection since 2021 because of his hard-hitting investigations, showed the mangled remains of the cars and the gate. The Carabinieri police said the four suspects detained near Naples were "strongly suspected... of the offences of possessing, carrying and using explosive devices in a public place, of making threats and causing damage, with aggravating circumstances due to having acted in a group of more than five people and using mafia-style methods." Three of them have been placed in pre-trial detention and the fourth is under house arrest. This image released by investigative journalist Sigfrido Ranucci shows his destroyed car, left, outside his home after an explosive device detonated beneath it, in Pomezia, near Rome, Italy, on Oct. 16, 2025. …